Help:Quick Guide to Editing
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How-To: Create Links
Internal Links
You can link to other pages within Judgepedia (for example, the Main Page) by placing double brackets around the name: ([[ ]]). Be sure to copy the page name exactly--it is case sensitive.
Tip: If you would like your text to appear different than the title of a Judgepedia page just add a |symbol (which is under the backspace button on most computers).
- For example:[[History of the Supreme Court|John Marhsall]]
- Which will appear as this on the finished article: John Marshall
External Links
To link to a webpage outside of Judgepedia, you can just type out the URL: http://www.google.com or you can make it look nicer by attaching the URL to a linkable word. To do that, surround the URL with single brackets ([ ]), use a space, and type the word(s) you want to show as the link: Google Search
Don't worry about the little arrow that will pop up after your external links--that's just to differentiate them from internal links.
How-To: Format Your Text
To use italics, surround the text with double apostrophes.
For bold text, use triple apostrophes.
If you want to super emphasize what you are writing, surround the text with five apostrophes.
If you are already comfortable with <tags>, those will work as well.
Italic, Bold, Boldly italicized!
In Wiki form: <i>Italic</i>, <b>Bold</b>, <i><b>Boldly italicized!</b></i>
You can strike out deleted text, or underline an important point.
In Wiki form: You can <strike>strike out deleted text</strike>, or <u>underline an important point</u>.
To divide your page, you can use a horizontal line by using <tags>:
or by typing horizontal dashes:
A new line will not start a new paragraph, however, leaving a blank line will.
(Click "edit" and look at this section to get a better idea of what that means.)
To put text in a box like this, simply put a space at the beginning of the line.
How-To: Use Bullet Points and Numbered Lists
- bullets are created by using asterisks (*)
- by doubling
- or tripling the asterisks up you can deepen your lists
- by doubling
You can also itemize with numbered lists:
- numbered lists are created by using the pound (#) sign
- at the beginning of each line
How-To: Create Sections
Wiki pages can be subdivided into sections by using headers. To create a header, put double equal signs (==) around the section title. To create a sub-section, use three equal signs (===), and so on.
Once you have a certain amount of section headers, JudgePedia will automatically create a Table of Contents for you at the top of the page.
References
Many articles include references to scholarly articles and books and reports, in the course of a passage of prose. The way to cite on JudgePedia is exactly the same as scholarly citation: with footnotes.
After the passage in question, add this language (without the extra line breaks within the tags, included here only for formatting purposes):
<ref>''[http://books.google.com/books?id=I3mal2inJQgC&dq= lomasky+democracy+and+decision&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots= lsqIY4Moic&sig=lrtppVyjbakW5v_Ky97pEkq6ZIc#PPP1,M1 Democracy and Decision: The Pure Theory of Electoral Preference]'', Geoffrey Brennan and Loren Lomasky, Cambridge University Press, 1995</ref>
and then, at the bottom of the page, add this:
==References== <references />
In this way, a discussion will look like this:
It appears that voters do, for the most part, vote their conscience,
as philosopher Lomasky, and economists Brennan[1] and Caplan[1], have demonstrated.
Anything Else?
Is there an editing question you would like to see addressed here? Click on the "discussion" tab at the top of the page, and let us know. Or add it yourself! That is the fun of Wikis, after all.
Acknowledgment: the content of this help page in Judgepedia has been adapted from Wikipedia.
